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The Pelican Brief

Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.

1993 · PG-13 · 2h 21m

Directed by Alan J. Pakula

6.6

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1,853 votes, out of 10

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A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

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Cast

  • Julia Roberts
    Darby Shaw

  • Denzel Washington
    Gray Grantham

  • Sam Shepard
    Thomas Callahan

  • John Heard
    Gavin Vereek

  • Tony Goldwyn
    Fletcher Coal

  • James B. Sikking
    Denton Voyles

  • William Atherton
    Bob Gminski

  • Robert Culp
    The President

  • Stanley Tucci
    Khamel

  • Hume Cronyn
    Justice Rosenberg

  • John Lithgow
    Smith Keen

  • Anthony Heald
    Marty Velmano

  • Nicholas Woodeson
    Stump

  • Stanley Anderson
    Edwin Sneller

  • John Finn
    Matthew Barr

  • Cynthia Nixon
    Alice Stark

  • Jake Weber
    Curtis Morgan

  • Casey Biggs
    Eric East